BACK IN 1971-72 in thailand WE HAD A SR-71 TOUCH DOWN AND TAKE OFF AND WERE TOLD NO PICTURES.....what a bad looking plane ...this one had a playboy bunny painted on back by the rudder....i was told when they first tested the plane the pilot took off ...then gave it full throttle ...it went straight up and ripped off the landing gear....talk about balls
you guys were talking about the b-52s....at our base which was the largest b-52 base in southeast asia....this was when the war was hot and heavy....there was so many b-52s they were parking them on the taxi-ways...after work we used to hang out at the drive -in which was at the end of the runway....bleachers-beach-water....they would have a ball game on take off....3 b-52s would take off....one after the other,,,,as soon as it lifted off the next would go......you could here the water injection for more thrust...when this thing got off the ground you could see the wings slop down with all those engines and loaded with 750lb and 550lb bombs in there bomb-bay ....the black smoke bellowing in the air from those 8 engines....the ground would shake when they passed over our heads....something i will never forget
i was trained to work on them but got stuck working on the kc-135s....we used to do 1 plane per day...but when this went nuts we did 2-3 planes a day....only repair red x items....to keep them in the air
